On March 6, 2020, Facebook announced it was banning ads for medical face masks across
its platforms to prevent people from trying to exploit the COVID-19 public health emergency …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to situate information and communications technology
(ICT)“transparency reports” within the theoretical framework of corporate social responsibility …

Warning: This paper contains content that may be offensive or upsetting. Understanding the
harms and offensiveness of statements requires reasoning about the social and situational …

Content moderation—the regulation of the material that users create and disseminate online—
is an important activity for all social media platforms. While routine, this practice raises …

Sharenting–that is, the sharing of identifying and sensitive information of minors, who are
often overexposed online by parents or guardians–has, at times, criminogenic potential, as …

This paper discusses the new phenomenon of platform ad archives. Over the past year,
leading social media platforms have installed publicly accessible databases documenting …

Algorithmic intermediaries govern the digital public sphere through their architectures,
amplification algorithms, and moderation practices. In doing so, they shape public …

Monitoring advertising around controversial issues is an important step in ensuring
accountability and transparency of political processes. To that end, we use the Facebook …

This thesis deals with what is generally referred to as online hate speech. More specifically, I
focus on posts about the Swedish-speaking population in Finland published on the web …

Due to its ease of scalability and broad applicability, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and
machine learning in platform management has gained prominence. This has led to …